My more practical Christmas presents

I got another pretty awesome gift for Christmas. It wasn't a surprise, but my parents gave us food storage. Certainly not enough for a year, but a general smattering of the important stuff (I think). One of my primary goals this year is to jump on the bandwagon because 1) isn't a commandment and I shouldn't need any other reason than that, but 2) it's (hopefully cheaper) and 3) I'm trying to make us healthier, more rounded eaters--I know, good luck with that, but I figure it's worth a shot.

Anyway, my mother-in-law gave me a flour mill for Christmas and I used it last week for our first food storage adventure. I was making pizza dough and decided to get brave and put a little wheat flour in it (it only ended up being a cup). Now, although my mom raised me better than this, I am a white bread girl. There's nothing better than a hot grilled cheese sandwich with white bread, so you can imagine my concern about wheat pizza dough, but I persevered. And it turned out good, probably because only a third of the flour was wheat, but whatever. I couldn't taste much difference. Troy said he could a little, but hey, unless he's cooking, things go my way. (Love you babe) Anyway, wish me luck.

semi-wheat calzones--delish

Finally, a shout out to Mande for being my mentor! She always sends me mega-helpful stuff, like a link to this site with info on all the phases of food storage.